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ervation of the public health and safety and having been passed by
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 17, 1971.

CHAPTER 568
(House Bill 880)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 31 of
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement
Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle, "Chapter 3. State
Superintendent of Schools," amending the provisions for reciprocal
procedures for the transfer of professional personnel from the
local school system to the State Department of Education.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 31 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle
"Chapter 3. State Superintendent of Schools," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

31.

All administrative and supervisory personnel who shall transfer
from local school systems in the State and who shall be appointed
to [comparable job classifications] positions in the State Department
of Education shall be given credit as employees of the State De-
partment of Education for the years of service rendered as employees
of the local school systems from which they shall have transferred,
for the purposes of establishing compensation rates and the basic
rates for vacation and sick leave credit earnings.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved May 17, 1971.

CHAPTER 569
(House Bill 913)

AN ACT to waive the provisions of Section 10 of Chapter 759 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1967, and Chapter 409 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1969, said Section relating to the
time by which projects must be placed under contract insofar as
the provisions of said Section relate to the items in Section
5 (E) (5) (b) in Chapter 759 of the Acts of 1967 and in Section
5 (G) (18) (b) in Chapter 409 of the Acts of 1969.